east, turn the back on the middle east, or pivot away from the middle east. that may prove illusionary. the middle east is not like vietnam. believe disengagement completely is possible. pax americana. right? >> wonderful introductory remarks. will come back to post-pax americana and post middle back to ica and come that. before i do that, some in the you've might not know gone further back in history of the united states in the middle east. going back to 176. overview in the recent book power, faith, and u.s. y event of how the involvement in the middle east. go into if you could that in cliff notes versions here. that's why i asked for the cliff notes version. notes of the f cliff notes but the comparative between the middle east and the founding of the united states and how the u.s. influenced the middle east development and at some point i think we'll also that has to do with the civil war and the statue of liberty. but let's start with the overview first? >> profound impacts on shaping another. he middle east was in the tally involved resolution. it's si

we will identify why the middle class is crucial to a thriving economy. who is in the middle class? the pressures they face and what it will take to keep the dream from slipping away from millions of americans. while 90% of americans aspire to be in the middle class, when you dig deeper, you will find only 44% of americans today say they actually belong to the middle class. and that's down from 53% who identified themselves as middle class in 2008 when the recession hit. while there is no accepted definition of what the middle class is, economists often define it by income. for the purposes of our conversation now, we will define america's middle class as households with total incomes of anywhere between 40 and 100,$000 a year. based based on our analysis that encompasses middle americans across america diversity who have similar dreams and aspirations for families, a secure job, owning a home, access to good healthcare and a college education for your children. add to that, some time off to go on vacation and ability to save enough to live comfortably during retirement of for many

middle east. remember that great blue water fleet of the soviet union back in 1973 that went eyeball to eyeball with the american fleet? that virtually disappeared. between the sixth fleet in the eastern mediterranean and the fifth fleet in the persian gulf american military power went virtually unchallenged. with the exception of the youth recordist kalashnikov rifle american arms gradually replace soviet arms throughout the middle east and american investments predominated. paradoxically, though the pax americana ushered in decades of almost uninterrupted american influence in the middle east it wasn't very much of the pax. it also inaugurated decades of american military conflict in the middle east something of what you can call a 30-year war beginning in 1979 with the takeover of the u.s. embassy in tehran and it continued with the ill-fated american intervention in lebanon in the 1980s, the reagan administrations armed confrontations with the libya and iran terrorist attacks against american

is america's fun in the middle east -- son in the middle east settling?he answer has to be far more nuanced. the key to the future is technology. i apologize, but it's true, and with all due respect to russia, china and france, american technology remains regnant throughout the middle east. rush against an couple old destroyers, but russia's naval presence fails to that of the united states still. secretary of state gary, is mediating between the israelis and the palestinians. and taking a diplomatically -- syria and iran. keeping in mind that the pax americana was always heavy on americana and light on pax, little has changed in the middle east except for the fact that today more middle easterners are killing more of each other, and killing fewer americans. in fact with fewer boots on the ground, or even ships at sea, the u.s. is killing numbers of middle easterners by remote means, as you know. and for all of their war weariness it would be a big mistake i believe for any party in the middle east to target americans. in short, it is surely premature to

based on our analysis the middle class consists of middle income families who have similar dreams and aspirations. a secure job, home, access to health care and a college education for that irchildren. add to that time off for vacations and the time to live comfortably in retirement. becoming harder to achieve. >> to achieve the american dream is very difficult. >> it turned into a nightmare actually. >> rebuilding the dream is crucial for all of us because the most important part of a robust economy is its middle class. spending for middle class families creates consumer demand. without a strong middle class america's economy will fal ferp join me for miss first hour special, america's middle class, rebuilding the dream. i'll be joined by robert reich and suze orman. >>> keat ke keystone pipeline, oil will be removed from the western canada region with or without the pipeline. the focus was only on the 770 mile northern leg, from hardesty hardesty, alberta to the united states. pipeline from alberta to the texas gulf coast. now eight more u.s. federal agencies have to weigh in on the

people were really okay being middle class, and middle class in the 50's and 60's, and into the 70'sn many classes could actually mean blue color. >> it absolutely could. one of the fascinating things we found was in 1970 44% of the people we considered middle class didn't even have a high school degree because there were those blue collar jobs available. that's not the case now. you need a college degree or a lot of college education to be part of the middle class. that's true nationally and it's certainly true in philadelphia. >> so when people say, i've been talking to people about this all day. tell me why philadelphia was hit harder than other cities that you've looked at, what is the answer to that? >> well, it was certainly hit hard. whether it was harder than other cities i think is hard to say, but philadelphia was a heavily manufacturing town, and when those jobs disappeared, it took a hard hit, and it maybe took a little longer than some other cities to figure out what the next step was. now you know, it's a heavily dependent on education and the medical sector, and that's

who is in the middle class. the pressures they face, and what it will take to keep the dream from slipping away from millions of americans. while 90% of americans aspire to be in the middle class, when you dig deeper only 44% of americans today say they belong to the middle class, and that's down from 2008 when the recession hit. while there's no accepted definition of what the middle class is, economists often define it by almost. so for the purposes of our conversation now, we'll define it as households of total incomes of anywhere between 40 and $100 thousand dollars a year. that covers families who have similar aspirations and dreams for their families. add to that some time off to go on vacation and the ability to save enough to live comfortably for retirement. for many these things arement billioning harder to achieve. median household income in the united states was 51,000371 dollars a year in 2012. median means half of all households earned more, and half learned less. that is 7% lower than 2008. adjuste

it had a huge influence on the middle east well before the advent of middle eastern oil.in fact, during the 19th century america was the main exporter of oil to the middle east. mostly in the form of kerosene. the united states also had a no less transformative impact on the middle east, mostly not through economics or oil, but through education. america built the universities in beirut, in cairo, american universities in turkey, through which american educators imparted american ideas. perhaps the most influential i encouraged george bush to las vegas.arry reid he did not. sessions do not change the fact that the senate was unavailable. planned 20-day no business break. it was gone. there was no forum to be had. the constitution, in my view exclusively grants the executive , both responsibility to determine senate availability and discretion to sign temporary commissions.

involvement in the middle middle east. wonder if you can go into that in sort of a cliff notes version here -- that is why i asked for the cliff notes version. this comparative analysis between middle east and the founding of the united states and how the u.s. development has influenced the middle east development and at some point i think we'll all also get into what that has to do with the civil war and the statue of liberty. let's start with the overview. the middleview is east has had profound impacts in shaping one another. the middle east was theamentally involved in founding of the american constitution. i knew that would get you. it is simple. i mentioned the barbary wars. they were the first foreign wars america fought after the american revolution, against the pirates of marco and algeria, and america did not have a navy and they could not have one until they collected taxes. the question of how to fight the parts became integral about whether or not to have a constitution. if you go into the debates, in every st

/middle east relations. if you look at all the major news stories in the region today from egypt to syria to iran, their origins can be traced to this foundational moment when the u.s. established an official presence in the middle east and when the cia was created and ran these operations. so in other words, i think if you really want to understand what's going on now, we do have to know about this earlier history. thanks very much for your attention. [applause] >> so i have two quick questions. one, in the '40s, the state department was also full of arabists. george what are shall, i think, threatened to resign if true han recognized israel, or at least he was very unhappy about it. so were these people connected with the state department people? .. so, you know it's a widespread phenomenon in u.s. governing circles at this point and a number of people believe that the u.s. should be throwing its weight behind arab world rather than behind israel and they should oppose the partition of palestine and u.s. r

approach to the middle east?>> request actually, on the contrary, i think it will shift it as less of a strategic issue and more of a financial interest. >> uh-huh, yep. president obama in his state of the union when talking about the middle east didn't talk much about the transitions that we were all focused on before the aaround awakening, talked more about nuclear iran, israeli-palestinian pass negotiations and, of course, syria -- peace negotiations. what is your view of how policy has evolved during the obama administration, and do you see an underlying strategy behind this shift or how would you explain what we're watching? >> i think came out with a robust and highly specific outreach to the middle easts. if you look back at the cairo speech of 2009 which in many ways was the foundational document for the obama administration's outreach, it was perhaps the most suis-generous document in the annals of american foreign policy. it was the only instance that i know of in which the president of the united state

it is the future of the middle east. are we at the tectonic shift point, where we are in a post pax americana mode? is there a certain role for iran in the region? what would that hegemonic role look like from the israeli perspective and the perspective of the gulf countries? today there's a greater confluence between israel and these gulf countries. agreeing on egypt or the fundamentals of the peace process. hope most of all that they agree on the iranian threat. that maintaining the ability to have a nuclear weapon is a unsustainable threat. it is a threat that is multifaceted. it is not just a threat of being of to put a nuclear warhead atop of the capital or any region and the city. i just watched a video clip of the iranians that they put out. they show striking american allies in the region. the bigger threats come in the form of providing nuclear umbrellas to terrorist organizations that could attack israel or other countries in the region with relative impunity. they will have to think, if we strike back, with th

take a look at the revival of the middle class. velshi. >> i would like to one day breathe a little easy. >> we have jobs. people don't have jobs. we are appreciative of that, and we are able to feed our family. we do struggle. >> we are not frivolous people. we don't have charge cards, we don't have car loans. my daughter can't go to college right now. it's not like, you know, we are spending the money and not paying attention to where it's going. we are working, doing what we have to do, and we can't get ahead. that's our lives. >> ali velshi is joining us now from new york. you know, this is really a picture of a new kind of middle class and we have talked on this program about a new kind of poor. and it's almost as though things changed so much for this group. >> yes. this is a good example, because we have talked about it on our show, you talked about it on yours. this is it beyond economics and politics. as a channel al jazeera america will start a year-long conversation on america's middle class. we are doing this on monday.

we'll restore the middle class. that really needs to be the job of all of us in public service and the philanthropic communities, that needs to be the job of rebuilding and making america strong. >> mayor, you've been very committed to that in philadelphia. a city that we both share. to understand what is happening to the middle class. it's slipping. the number one cause is unemployment. i got into a cab recently with a guy in this very situation. jay stein is workinged a a good ol' fashioned new york city cab driver. but not by choice. he had a cush job working on the online industry, but when his job was cut, he went to driving a cab. he would like to live his dream but right now it seems that he's stuck in neutral. >> you've been doing this for seven months now? >> seven or eight months now yeah. >> how do you feel about it? >> i find it difficult. i was earning $120,000 plus commission, expenses. now i'm earning maybe i'll earn $60,000 gross. it's a 12-hour day hustle. >> how long do you think you'll be doing th

it's not just the middle incomers but lower as well. >> we can be very specific when we say middle class about what we mean. $21,000 to $40,000 a year, they'll pay more, $40,000 to $60,000, i think that's solid middle class. >> yeah. it's a little disturbing. the study itself notes there is a whole lot more things left to come, a lot of shoes to drop. they qualified it. then when you take the results of the brookings study and you match it to some of the studies from the cbo study, it gets really confusing because they're directly opposed. guys, like it or not and i know you don't. it's going to be three years until we really begin to know at worked and what didn't. >> the fact is we've already seen stuff happening and it's not good. a lot of people shoved off through medicaid and the president said they would not have to pay for it. in fact, he said the middle class will realize greater security, not higher taxes. but if you're paying more of fer your money, isn't that another nd of a tax? >> just another one of president obama's lies when it came to obama care. what we've known for a l

who is middle class?ou want to define it is everybody in the middle of the in come scale. that might be everybody from 20% to 80 percentile in materials of incomes. it's more important whether people consider themselves to be middle class. we've seen from polls the people of americans who consider themselves to be middle class has been falling. there's a poll out recently that show only 44% of people now consider themselves to be in the middle class. that's down from 53% six years ago. at the same time people who consider themselves to be lower class has been going up by a lot. this is how we're seeing when you hear decline of middle class, a lot of it is they really don't have the ability to get ahead anymore. they end up kids who might end up worse, better off. when you hear about the dplin of the middle class, that's what it is. >> let me ask you about an article you wrote, hugely provocative title. you said walmart is getting too expensive for the middle class. what do you mean by that? >> something c

college level and i have also done it at the middle school level. i'm here to talk about common core and i'm very excited about the rigor but i'm also worried about the detracking issue. big picture, i have done a lot of research and follow the research and totally understand it supports good results. well, it supports good results when it's implemented thought fully deliberately with attention paid to the needs of all the learners. however, i have concerns that the huge, i just feel like a lot of veteran teachers, seasoned teachers are missing at the middle school level. my daughter is in 7th grade so i have seen it. so unless we have very seasoned and veteran middle school teachers that are capable of understanding the math content, i feel like detracking i guess it would negative impact the student. so basically my question comes down to the district. will the district invest resources in all our teachers and i feel we can use extra support and class size. i have a hard time teaching a class of 35 students. anyway, thank you very much. >>> hello,

either way, the middle class needs help. businesses responding to a shrinking middle class, by providing goods and services for the very rich, while make less. times reporter who wrote the story, the middle class is slowly eroding, just ask the business world, what did you find? >> basically we looked at different businesses that catered to consumers. what we really saw was brands and businesses that cater to the middle, say red lobster and olive garden were having a hard time in the restaurant space, whereas capitol grill which is owned by da darden is doing well. you see this in business after business, casinos, hotels, even appliance makers. >> you see that in retail too, stores that go after the middle class. >> yep, yep. >> in that case do you think it's a shift from brick and mortar to online, or is it a different issues. >> if we looked at how sears and j.c. penney were doing poorly. it's not just in treelg. you're seeing -- retailing, it suggests many, many sectors. you can't say it's just the internet or that kind o

even though america's feint on middle -- fence on middle eastern finish dependence on middle eastern oil is very much on the wane. >> here and then there and then to the side. so one, two, three, please. >> thank you. thank you, ambassador. jeff steinberg. i'd like to suggest a maybe slightly different narrative as to what's going on with the u.s. policy in the middle east right now and get your thoughts on it. have we possibly come to the point where we've got to basically face up to a number of strategic errors that were made in shaping u.s. policy? did we fail to see the long-term dangers of the spread of neo-salafism in a non-terrorist form and miss the significance of that? did we have an overly optimistic and, or basically, false notion of the role that the muslim brotherhood might play as a reform faction within political islam? and is there also some kind of possible rethink about the actual viability of being able to achieve through diplomatic means a just two-state solution to the israel-palestine issue? of course, you know as a historian that at the time of the truman admi

prosperity is built from the middle loud and from the middle up. in maryland this year we are seeking to raise our minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. i know that these debates are happening in a number of states, metropolitan areas and cities all across our country. the truth of the matter is that when workers are more businesses have more customers and our economy grows. today we had discussions with the president about how we can work together so that when people work hard and play by the rules that they are able to get ahead. that is where america is all about. a mom or dad that is working 40, 50, 16 hours a week at a minimum wage job and falling behind is not the america that we want our children to grow up in. when people work hard they should be able to get ahead which is why so many of us believe that it is time to give america raised, to raise the minimum wage so that we can grow our economy and strengthen our middle-class. >> thank you, governor. >> finally, from the other coast, the great cat owner of the state of washington. >> great. i wan

up until the middle of the 1970s, this was a country that was ticking for the middle class.en with a college education you could get a great blue collar job with a pension, send your kids off to college. things have really changed. you and i discussed this on state of the union night. there's a building of income and equality in this country. i am spending an entire hour, anybody who dvrs this make sure you settle it for an hour. robert shiller, suze orman, the financial guru, we're going otalk about the middle class, why they're squeezed but more importantly tony how we fix it. this is the beginning of a year long conversation that we're all having, this entire channel is going to have. we're also talking to as we always do on this show, people with real world pressure in their lives. sabino family of new york, the mamaddox family of oregon. we want to be able to tell you what's going on with the middle class. >> i was going to end it here but here's the other doggone thing, when i listen to you talk about the factors that lead to the squeeze of the middle class, everyone k

in this middle byzantine period, you have, really-- it lasts, in fact, and starts from the middle 9th century till about the early 13th century. and during this period, it is, in fact, a very important critical period for the development of byzantine art and, especially, their religious art because it is at-- during this particular phase that they developed a classical system of the decorative program for the interior of the buildings. in addition to that, they also developed a standardized form of architecture. during the early phase, they tended to experiment a bit more, but during the middle byzantine period, they reaffirmed the acceptance of an architectural form which was centralized. and here, in this church, we have a centralized building, it is capped by a huge dome, and in this middle byzantine period, that is what they preferred, a centralized building which could be either octagonal, it could be either a square with an inscribed cross within it, but it would be domed or it would have elaborate vaulting systems. the reason for that was probably partially due to the type of d

that's the middle class. th's working people.ll business people. >> the single greatest invention that cured poverty and led to middle class prosperity is capitalism. >> that's a different statement. i'm talking a connection between the republican party, values and people who work for a living. >> they have to make that connection. our ideas are the one that is are going to help you the most an the most for you and are doing the most for you. >> democrs don't go to the elections and say you know what, we believe in redistribution and we are going to build the greatest entitlement system ever imagined on this continent. >> ey don't use the term. >> rit. they connect. they say you are g going to have -- >> health care. >> a benefit ogram, atever it may be. >>epublicans are not good at talking about things in that concrete way. >> let's change the language. >> absolutely. >> republicans are great at connecting with working men and women and the middle class, how about that? >> they have been in the past. >> thanks for being here. >>

the middle class consists of middle income families with similar dreams and aspirations. is a secure job, owning a home, a college education for the children. add to that time off for vacations and the ability to save enough to live comfortably with the retirement. for many families these things are harder to achieve. >> to achieve the american dream is di. >> it will turp into a nightmare. >> rebuilding the dream is crucial. the most important part of the economy is its middle class. spending by middle class families creates demand. without a strong middle class, america's economy will falters. we have an hour-long show on monday, i'll be joined by special guests - it's a mixed bag, worth watching. >> speaking of the american dream, president obama signalled on friday that he would consider an immigration deal that excludes a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million in the country illegally. it's been called a non-negotiable item. joining us now is david leopold, in cleveland ohio. thank you for being with us. >> it seems that the calls for immigration reform continue t

today say they belong to the middle class. that's down nine points from 53% of americans who identified themselves as middle class in 2008 when the recession hit. millions of middle class families that built their wealth through their homes found themselves under water. millions discovered that a college degree is not always enough to guarantee prosperity in the future. soaring student debt makes it harder for many to move up the economic ladder and bolster the american middle class. >> we called the local bank. how much stupid loans we -- how much student loans we have, we couldn't refinance. >> households are made you have anywhere between $40,000. the middle class insists on families that have a secure job, owning a home, access to good health care and a college education for children. add to that time off for vacation and saving for retirement. these things are becoming harder to achieve. >> to achieve the american dream it's difficult. >> it turned into a nightmare, actually. >> rebuilding the dream is crucial. the most i

the eir didn't address the middle-class. there's no dispute that there's a hallowing out of our middle-class. it's not meeting its target for moderate housing. you should incorporate policies that will be effective in producing middle-class housing. and one of the 0 policies should be revised and one - the 2009 housing needs to have some single-family neighborhood. i support of the stuns requesting additional time for comments. the revised discussion refers to other sections of the eir that weren't circulated. so therefore i respectfully ask for more time to look at the number one circulated areas. thank you for your time >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name is a jean i'm a long time resident of the richmond district. i'm here to add my voice to the many requests to please grant a continuance for the review of this process. as you already heard many of us didn't understand the notice we could comment on other seconds of the eir as and pertain to the alternative section. in the interest

not only the chinese affiliates in the middle east but also middle eastern companies themselves.s something they are going to be expanding. million toome $600 middle eastern clients including qatar airways. ceo of the middle eastern area is saying they will be looking at dubai property. >> it has certainly made a comeback since the massive fall that they did suffer. >> there were a lot of investors in dubai as well. that is an interesting sub story. >> may be the first chinese bank to invest in that branch there. other people may be looking at this. do we have any idea whether others will follow them? >> other chinese banks, i would assume so. icbc will be opening the first chinese branch in saudi arabia. china is saudi arabia's number two trading partner. exact i don't know the figure but over five years from 2007 to 2012, trade was up about 188%. there is a need definitely not only for trade finance but for other forms of lending in that market. >> cheers, thanks for that. else get you over to what is going on. less than two months into 2014, global investors have pulled more m

the middle class insists -- consists of middle income families who have similar dreams and as myrrhations. a secure job. owning a home. access to good healthcare and college education for their children. add to that, some time off for vacations and ability to save enough to live comfortably during retirement. >> for many middle class families, these things are becoming harder to achieve. >> achieve the american dream right now it is very difficult. >> it turned into a nightmare. i mean, actually. >> rebuilding the dream is crucial for all of us because the most important part of a robust economy is its middle class. spending by middle class families creates strong consumer demand and desperately needed tax revenue. >> without a strong middle class, america's committee will falter. we are kicking off our coverage monday on real money with a special hour long show. i'll be joined by secretary robert riesch, teamsters union president james hoffa and personal finance expert suze hormann, a mixed bag but is worth watch. you can watch america's middle class rebuilding the dream here monday at 7

based on our analysis the middle class consists of middle income families who have similar dreams and aspirations, a secure job, owning a home, access to good health care, and a college education for their children. add to that some time off for vacations and the ability to save enough to live comfortably for retirement. these things are becoming harder to chief. >> to chief the may i respectfully dream it's difficult. >> it turned into a nightmare actually. >> rebuilding the dream is important for all of us. because the most important part of a robust economy is the middle class. spending creates strong consumer demand. without middle class the america's economy will falter. we're kicking off monday with a special hour long show, robert reich. teamsters union president james hoff fa and suze orman, it's a mixed bag but worth watching john. >> you can watch right here al jazeera america 7 eastern and again 10 eastern monday. >>> beaten abused and forced to work up to 18 hours a day. we'll tell it where it's happening. plus drinking to death. what's killing many russian men. >> welcome

in new york what passes as middle class would be upper-middle-class elsewhere.s the data collected by the government. the median family income in america is $60,000. that is including both a husband and a wife. whether or not both are working -- $60,000 is the median. i sort of use that as a rough yardstick of what is middle-class. what is clear is that middle class people are under tremendous economics rests because salaries -- economic stress because salaries are not going up. costs are not stagnating. anybody can apply to college or get health insurance. it is going to cost more though. that is the real stress on the middle class. one source of income says the stock market and dividends is not benefit the middle class in terms of what they own. we were well off until the bottom fell out in 2008 and haven't recovered one bit since then. talk about 2008. guest: a lot of these trends were at work prior to 2008. it is not all brand-new. what happened in the wake of the recession is you had unemployment go way up. lots of people lost their jobs. you have a lot of

the middle class in the city should have some areas in the neighborhood. and it's not been given sufficient attention if the city and we have a crisis not having houses for the middle-class. they will be sent out of the city a again, we think the housing element as it stand it totally inadequate. >> my name is a dave i'm address is 120 grant avenue in san francisco. i'm president of west highlands association. i grew up here and went to school here and work here and now my grand kids are here. as you know, in the 1994 our neighborhood coalition brought this to court. then planning received the 2009 planning element this time with an eir didn't address transportation. right now the busses on gary and stockton are already packed. i've rind public straight downtown and finally, just recently started driving and that particular eir didn't offer the alternatives now the public didn't know about this our neighborhoods have had three weeks since christmas to look at it. glancing at it the transportation system still stuck out but one huge alternative is housing t

my name is susie loftus and proud that i went to elementary and middle school. i have a first grader and third grader. what i'm here to share is really an appreciation of assistance superintendant who came to our school last night and has some important goals and data and policies where you want to go. our request really is that in fact oring those decisions and understanding what this program means not only to children that are in the program but kids like mine who benefit who spend time with those kids who cheer them on, it affects an entire community that is truly inclusive. it's something that benefits all of our kids. you can see the number of people we have packed in here on short notice. if there doesn't have to be a rush to this, take some time. come out to the school. have you experienced what we experience everyday and we believe this is something that you will want to replicate and you will see the incredible impact it has. our request is to slow it down and give us more time to show you about this program and we think you will agree that it's an abso

for max not the from star trek these are called middle class cling on the headline reads middle class cling ons squeezed out of london property market so the financial times looked at all the recent data from savile's housing market and what they found was that the f.t. findings show how the purchasing power of a wealthy goober middle is increasingly pushing the most desirable neighborhoods out of the reach of middle class cling ons whose salaries have failed to keep pace over the past forty years well the government's going to put them all into the transporter room and beam them onto another planet where you don't need a job to work you don't need food you don't need water you don't need air you just got to get out of there because the policies have created this enormous gulf this enormous split so these cling on justin is like. they're trying to cling on to having some modicum of middle class existence are being beamed out of out of out of the place gold well the cling ons or what i guess you would call the lower middle class and they're the sort of people who could afford to live a

but then again there aren't ceos in the middle east that help promote peace and stability within the region and i can only be encouraged to know about very notion has been put into question by edwin black who is an award winning author this new book cool financing the flames. i met him at the european parliament's to ask him why he started his investigation into the master in the first place. i was struck by the amount of money that's going to the palestinian authority and the fact that it's going to promote peace and reconciliation. but it's actually accomplishing the opposite funding specific terrorism program which is actually administered by the ministry of prisoners in the palestinian authority pursuant to law called the law of the prisoner which creates monthly salaries for convicted terrorists which escalates by the number of people that are killed. this is opening its known. it's not the night and are getting this money from the eu in from united states taxpayer will make sure investigation different. no one's ever done an investigation like this i'm also looking at tax exemp